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When Amazon announced a wider rollout of a surveillance feature to help Ring smart doorbells locate lost dogs, it was immediately seen as a precursor to using the feature to identify people. That the ...

The Federal Trade Commission said this week that web companies will not violate the children's privacy law by collecting personal information from young children in order to determine their ages, ...

Discord is hitting the brakes on its global age verification rollout following significant community backlash and privacy concerns. The platform confirmed it will delay the expansion of its “Teen By ...

Over 350 security experts from 30 countries signed an open letter warning against broad age verification protocols for social media platforms. PCWorld reports that experts fear these measures could ...

The Energy Department recently fixed an identity verification flaw in a portal supporting its critical minerals programs after a security researcher found the system allowed outside users to register ...

Discord's stylized name and logo in white, against a sky blue background. Discord is pushing back plans to start verifying the age of all users in March after weeks of user ire. Stanislav Vishnevskiy, ...

Ring was the subject of significant backlash earlier this month, after a poorly received Super Bowl ad drew attention to its surveillance cameras' AI-powered Search Party feature. Though advertised as ...

Just weeks after Discord u-turned itself out of a Persona-related mess, another gaming-adjacent company has embraced the controversial digital verification service. Some Twitch streamers now have to ...

Notepad, one of the oldest and most reliable apps in the Windows ecosystem, has been undergoing some big changes during the Copilot AI era. Unfortunately, one of its new features was prone to a ...

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